Saturday, 28 February 2009

The second of my planned dragoon regiments is now finished. I had my table setup for a 18C 40mm game, so I thought I'd re-use the setup to pose the dragoons getting into position. Riding down the road ...

And deployed in front of the church ...

[figs: All Irregular Miniatures, some of the dismounted dragoons are converted musketeers.]

Sunday, 22 February 2009

To keep my dismounted troopers under control, officers are required. I started with the Irregular Miniatures pikeman without tassets figure; the heads have been replaced with S&S ones; then a sword (cast from a Prince August mould) was added to the open hand; finally sashes and boots added with green stuff.

I've finished the outworks for the defence of the castle. They were clogging up my modelluing desk so decided to complete them to make room for some figure painting. I was going to add some scenic scatter on the sections, but the basic brown I used seem to be fine, with some dry brushing of a lighter shade.

All laid out and a couple of figures added to get the scale of the works ..

Tuesday, 10 February 2009

Each of the 2 dismounted horse regiments will have a man holding/leading a horse. Finished the green stuff changes for these based on an Irregular Miniatures pikeman without tassets; altered the heads as well. Most of the time was spent doing their boots.

These will enter into my painting queue (which for some reason seems to be getting longer).